[Mega Thread] What are your thoughts on Baltimore and the surrounding situation?

both offending parties should be ashamed of themselves.

Protocol of every police department is to call EMS services and EMS will apply a backboard to the patient and other proper care and transfer the offender under police department supervision to the hospital. I know he "might be a criminal" but denying somebody an EMS service is criminal.

Also, they should have buckled the offender in, cops do it, jailers that transfer offenders do it, everybody does it.

Apparently when he got arrested he was complaining of diffuculty breathing, the cops shouldve called ems and the ems would have done a SAFE and EFFICENT rapid trauma assessment to see if their was any

: crepitus down his spine

:CSF leaking from his nose eyes ears (cerebral spinal fluid)

: any DCAPBTLS along his thoratic, lumbar region of his back (deformities contusions abrasions punctures burns tears laserations)

Thoes key things are looking for spinal cord damage. Now i dont know if the patient had a pre existing injury with his spine but somewhere from the arrest to his death his spine severed and either died from his brain shutting down the ability to take oxygen or something along the lines of unimaginal pain.

Now for the people who looted and rioted.

the family of the deseased patient has a HUGE suit they can win, the pd didnt call ems services. But Instead of taking to court they cry for blood.

You have to be ashamed for yourself for rioting and looting, the damage physical, mental, and emotional trauma you are causing to the fine citizens of baltimore is appauling.

You have a chance to peacefully protest and get a civil suit against this police misconduct but no, you are breaking windows of cop cars and innocents alike.

Im not gonna lie thats a big civil suit that might change ems and pd protocols and procedures for the future.

But back to the rioters, protest peacefully, act like human beings, you will be treated like human beings.

Instead you act like animals, you get treated like animals.

In closing or TLDR, he died of shock trauma, which explains his hypoxia or difficulty breathing which could have been prevented by ems intervention. And the looters are acting no better than the cops in this case.

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